SISTER'S CONNECTION

Quote of the week

“The Lord knows who we really are, what we really think, what we really do, and who we really are becoming.”
David A. Bednar,

Sept. 20th

Super Saturday is on November 7th. (9:00- 1:30) Come and join the fun. Sign up to do a craft, take a class or just come and laugh and enjoy the day with friends. (All money due by Oct. 11th)

The following are the crafts that are available to make.
(Apron $8.00) (Scrubber $1.25)

(4 cards for $5.00 or 10 gift tags for $5.00) (Hooded towel, $8.00)
(Wood Block $8.00)

September 26th

General Relief Society Meeting

The general Relief Society meeting will be on Saturday, September 26, 2009, at 6:00 p.m. mountain daylight time. All women 18 years of age and older are invited to attend. Messages will be delivered by a member of the First Presidency and members of the Relief Society general presidency. The meeting will originate from the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Those who live in areas where the meeting is broadcast live by satellite are encouraged to watch it together. Those who live in areas where the meeting is not broadcast live by satellite should meet to watch it when the rebroadcast or recording is available. The talks given at the annual general Relief Society meeting are published as part of the general conference issue of the Church magazines. For information on audio and video streams, including a new media player, see the Broadcast event page.

September 13th Sunday Lesson

“Chapter 40: How Glorious Are Faithful, Just, and True Friends,” Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, (2007),458–67

Perhaps Joseph Smith’s great love for his friends made the betrayals of some of those friends especially hard to bear. In Nauvoo, friends whom the Prophet had taken into his confidence turned against him. However, many friends returned the Prophet’s loyalty, standing with him to the end.

One such friend was Willard Richards, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, who was jailed with Joseph and Hyrum Smith and John Taylor in Carthage, Illinois. While being held in the jail, the men were allowed to move from a cell on the first floor to a more comfortable bedroom on the second floor of the jailhouse. Then, shortly before the martyrdom, the jailer suggested that the prisoners would be safer in an iron-barred cell next to the bedroom. Joseph asked Elder Richards, who was called “doctor” by his friends because he had practiced medicine: “ ‘If we go into the cell, will you go in with us?’ The doctor answered, ‘Brother Joseph, you did not ask me to cross the river with you—you did not ask me to come to Carthage—you did not ask me to come to jail with you—and do you think I would forsake you now? But I will tell you what I will do; if you are condemned to be hung for treason, I will be hung in your stead, and you shall go free.’ Joseph said, ‘You cannot.’ The doctor replied, ‘I will.’ ”

Quote of the Week

I hope that my dear sisters throughout the world—grandmothers, mothers, aunts, and friends—never underestimate the power of their influence for good, especially in the lives of our precious children and youth!

President Heber J. Grant (1856–1945) said, “Without the devotion and absolute testimony of the living God in the hearts of our mothers, this Church would die.”1 And the writer of Proverbs said, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6).

President Gordon B. Hinckley counseled the women of the Church:

“It is so tremendously important that the women of the Church stand strong and immovable for that which is correct and proper under the plan of the Lord. …

“We call upon the women of the Church to stand together for righteousness. They must begin in their own homes. They can teach it in their classes. They can voice it in their communities.”

Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “The Influence of Righteous Women,” Ensign, Sep 2009, 2–7

Sunday's Lesson Sept. 6th, 2009

This week's lesson was on Faith and the steps to gain a greater faith and the pitfalls that lead to disbelief. Read Elder Pearson's conference talk in the Ensign, titled "Faith in the Jesus Christ".